Pitching Your Story Idea or Script to Hollywood

Pitching your Story Idea or Script to Hollywood. If you want it - want it so bad you can taste it - you can make it happen!

Refusing The Hero's Journey : Screenwriting Tips, Tricks and Tools

One critical element of the hero's journey is Refusal. If the hero is willing, then refusal often comes in the form of an interdiction and / or warning. If the hero is naturally unwilling, then an unbearable antagonism often pushes the hero into the adventure.

Screenwriting Craft: Hero's Journey

There are a number of steps you can take to master screenwriting craft. Some of these include:

So You Thought that Was Funny, Did You?

In humour, timing is everything - the comment that was funny when you thought of it may not be by the time you come to say it... or just plain wrong.

Screenwriting Groups: Hero's Journey and the Tangible Representation of the New Order

Once the hero has completed his journey, there is often a sequence tangibly illustrating the New Order.

Screenwriting Format; Hero's Journey: Deliberate and Structured Road of Trials

The stage of the Transformation, also known as the Road of Trials, is one of the most deliberate and structured parts of a screenplay.

Screenwriter Help: Hero's Journey and Making the Transformation Real

A number of tools can be employed to make the Transformation (also known as the Road of Trials) real.

Screenwriting Magazine: Hero's Journey; Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire

However, after the near death experience, it is not unusual for the hero to undergo another, more significant trial. In other words, the near-death-experience usually involves two trials.

Why You Must Be a Story Expert

Stories can change a person’s “frame of view” much more powerfully than dry concepts. Instead of fear-based facts told in conceptual form, you need to offer people a compelling, positive vision for the future told in narrative form—if you want to motivate people to act in new ways. In fact, most people in a leadership role are now expected to know...

Pitching to Reporter vs. Editor

Find out, the most effective print or broadcasting media for your story. Determine how the organization works, who farms out assignments. Every journalist has preferences for receiving news releases and pitches. Knowing the format and method could make a world of difference.

ADVICE About Downloadable Dictionaries

Discusses ways to benefit the most from electronic dictionaries

Seven Secrets Of Highly Creative Writers

Ways to effortlessly generate ideas--and why this is vital to your career.

The Rule of 3 - Not 2 - Not 4

When arranging flowers, balloon bouquets, or business presentations, do you use the rule of three?

Hollywood Screenwriter: CrouchingTiger Hidden Dragon (2000) Deconstructed

The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon.